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Aerith Gainsborough

Aerith Gainsborough

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric · {2}{W} · White commander

Lifelink Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Aerith Gainsborough. When Aerith Gainsborough dies, put X +1/+1 counters on each legendary creature you control, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Aerith Gainsborough.
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What Aerith Gainsborough actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What an Aerith Gainsborough deck needs

Plays as lifegain. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Aerith Gainsborough deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Aerith Gainsborough

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  2. Spawning Pit2 mana
  3. Ashnod's Altar3 mana
  4. Phyrexian Altar3 mana
  5. Fanatical Devotion3 mana
  6. Martyr's Cause3 mana
  7. Bound by Moonsilver3 mana
  8. High Market0 mana

Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. High Market0 mana
  3. Zuran Orb0 mana
  4. Authority of the Consuls1 mana
  5. Serra Ascendant1 mana
  6. Shadowspear1 mana
  7. Soul Warden1 mana
  8. Soul's Attendant1 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
  2. Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
  3. Grateful Apparition2 mana
  4. Metastatic Evangel2 mana
  5. Ainok Bond-Kin2 mana
  6. Generous Pup2 mana
  7. Martyr for the Cause2 mana
  8. Cenn's Tactician1 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  4. Generous Gift3 mana
  5. Erode1 mana
  6. Unwanted Remake1 mana
  7. Angelic Ascension2 mana
  8. You Cannot Pass!1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Open the Armory2 mana
  2. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  3. Templar Knight2 mana
  4. Idyllic Tutor3 mana
  5. Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
  6. Loyal Tutor1 mana
  7. Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
  8. Search for Glory3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Day of Judgment4 mana
  4. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  5. Split Up3 mana
  6. Winds of Abandon2 mana
  7. Depopulate4 mana
  8. No Witnesses4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  4. The One Ring4 mana
  5. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  6. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  7. Enduring Innocence3 mana
  8. Mentor of the Meek3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  4. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  5. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  6. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  7. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  8. Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

Combos with Aerith Gainsborough

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Aerith Gainsborough is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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